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Search - John Milton - An Essay - With Biographical Sketches Of Milton And Macaulay - An Epitome Of The Views Of The Best Known Critics Of Milton

John Milton An Essay With Biographical Sketches Of Milton And Macaulay An Epitome Of The Views Of The Best Known Critics Of Milton
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay

l THOMAS B ABIN TO N A CAULAY whose father was Zachary hfacaulay-famous for his advocacy of the abolition of slavery, was born at Rothley Temple, in Leicestershire, towards the end of 1800. From his infancy he showed a precocity that was simply extraordinaq. He not only acquired knowledge rapidly, but he possessed a marvelous power of working it... more » up into literary form, and his facile pen produced compositions in prose and in verse, histories, odes, and hymns. From the time that he was thee years old h3 read incessantly, for the most part lying on the rug before the fire with his book on the ground, and a piece of bread and butter in his hand. It is told of him that when a boy of four, and on a visit with his father, he was unfortunate enough to have a cup of hot coffee overturned-on his legs, and when his hostess, in her sympathetic kindness, asked shortly after how he was feeling, he looked up in her face and said, Thank you, madam, the ngony is abated. At seven he wrote a compendium of Universal History. At eight he was so fired mith the Lay and mith Har mwn that he wrote three cantos of a poem in imitation of Scotts manner, and called it the Battle of Cheviot. And he had many other literary projects, in all of which he showed perfect correctness both in grammar and in spelling, made his meaning uniformly clear, and was scrupulously accurate in his punctuation. JVith all this clererness he was not conceited. His parents, and particularly his mother, were most judicious in their treatment. They never encouraged him to display his powers of conversation, and they abstained from every kind of remark that might help him to think himself different from other boys. One result was that throughont his life he was free from literary vanity another was that he habitually overestimated the knowledge of others. When he said in his essays that every schooJbuy qew 4 LIFE OB 3IACAULAY. this and that fact in history, he was judging their information by his own vast intellectual stores. At the age of twelve, blacaulay was sent to a prirate school in the neighborhood of Cambridge. There he laid the foundation of his future scholarship, and though fully occupied with his school mork-chiefly Latin, Greek, and mathematics-he found time to gratify his insatiable thirst for general literature. He read at random and without restraint, but with an apparent partiality for the lighter and more attractive books. Poetry and prose fiction remained throughout his life his favorite reading...

ISBN-13: 9781408636145
ISBN-10: 140863614X
Publication Date: 2/28/2008
Pages: 92
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Publisher: Caven Press
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